Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.

- Malayan Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.

Jewish Proverb

Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.

Swedish Proverb

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

Latin Proverb

A collections of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.

Indian Proverb

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.

Alger, William R.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

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Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

11.

I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.

Stevens, Wallace

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If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.

Chinese Proverb

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Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

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The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

16.

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

17.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

18.

Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.

Spanish Proverb

19.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

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I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.

Dutch Proverb

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You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Irish Proverb

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Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.

Scottish Proverb

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No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.

Malayan Proverb

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Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.

Baker, Nicholson

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One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

29.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

30.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Bacon, Francis

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If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.

Oriental Proverb

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Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.

Malayan Proverb

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For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good.

Florio, John

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Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

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If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

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Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.

Japanese Proverb

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Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

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Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books.

Morely, John

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When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.

Czech Proverb

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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The reverse side also has a reverse side.